[Coco] Recognize these?

[John E. Malmberg]

Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm trying to ID two sub requests:
> 
> d.cummings at comcast.net

comcast.net has been acquiring other providers and making them change 
e-mail addresses.  D. Cummings sounds like someone who I have seen posts 
from, but I can not be certain.

> arrow at io.com
> 
> Neither is a past CoCo poster under those addresses.
> 
> Anybody know who they are? The first doesn't come up on Google, the second
> only comes up as "Maelstrom" with one hit. http://www.io.com/~arrow/

I seem to remember a post by someone that referenced a web page on a 
political discussion page that referenced "Maelstrom", but I can not be 
certain.

> I've emailed back, but neither has confirmed with me yet. I'd like to
> subscribe everybody who's real so we can take off!

My guess is that they are real.

Also, some like me will subscribe to receive e-mail under a different 
address than we post from.

If you have any doubts, take the I.P. address that your mail server 
accepted the e-mail from.  If it matches what it told your mail server, 
then it will probably not be a problem, even if it does not match the 
domain name that the poster uses for e-mail.

If it does not match, it means that either their mail server is 
misconfigured, (many are), or they are trying to hide their path.

My guess is that you will not see much of that for deliberate 
subscription requests.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.net
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